9 Jan 2012:
Clooney has bought the rights to Robert M Edsel's book about government efforts to retrieve artworks stolen by the Nazis during the second world war
Frank Keating: Guardian's fondly remembered former golf correspondent Pat Ward-Thomas spent his time usefully when detained as a prisoner of war at Sagan in Poland
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 27 December 1941: The Prime Minister was given an enthusiastic reception when he addressed both Houses of Congress in joint session at the Capitol yesterday
Originally published in the Guardian on 24 December 1940: There is an unexpected dearth of new songs, but none of the expected dearth of splendour in the West End of London's only pantomime, Francis Laidler's "Aladdin" at the Coliseum